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of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to this point. Again, it was oft en t h e practice to charge a penny postage in ad dition to the general postage charged on a letter ; but this had been declared by the Courts to be contrary to law. He wished to draw attention to this fact ; that in London let t ‘rs byday the General Post-office arrived at one hour of the only, and at one hour of the day only were general letters sent away from that establishment. The general letters arrived and were distributed about eight or nine G o clock in the m orn i ng ; and let the letters be put into the eneral Post -office here at whatever hour in the day they might, it w as not until eight o'clock in the evening that • they were sent away, to the very great inconvenience of the e ° l -wtry. It was a proceeding altogether unjustifiable, and OP.O which was not known to be pursued in any other part tothe ki ng d om. It ought not and could not be permitted continue. There were six general deliveries every day from the post-office at Liverpool, besides the penny-post letters. In that large community, perhaps second only to London, there was no difficulty whatever in delivering the general letters with those of the penny-post. The same thing was done at Manchester. But in London the post-office had been allowed to be conducted for half a century without any sort of alteration or improvement whatever, He could find out no reason why the mails should not be sent out of London at eight or nine eeloel e i n th e morning, but that it suited the conveni enie of th ose connecte with the establishment that they should remain till eight o'clock in the evening —that was for twelve or fifteen hours after being put into the post. Perhaps it was not known to the Chancellor of the Ex ebenaer that the clerks in the General Post-office were em ployed only for a few hours in the day. The great proportion of them began duty abont a quarter to six in the morning, and continued entil nine, and from nine till five in the evenin g they were their own masters, most of them being em ployed as merchants' clerks, attornies' clerks, and such like. In short, instead of their being public servants, they were servants to any one who chose to employ them. This ac counted at once for the detention of the mails. This was the best information be had been able to obtain upon the hject, th oug h , as he had on former occasions stated, it was almost impossible, by any means he had been able to to devise, to get an accurate and complete return of what went on in the establishment at St. Martin's-le-grand. Ano ther subject of complaint was the circuitous routes which letters often went. This was most unjustifiable. Some letters were sent to places eighty or ninety miles off, and 'were charged accordingly, although their places of destine -tinn were not distant more than six or seven miles. Nay, be knew of instances where letters were sent eighty miles, although the distance of their destination was only four miles from the Post-office. Yet the postage for the whole distance was charged.—(Hear, hear.) The parties ther e f ore, not only suffered by the del a y, b u t were addition lly taxed in the bargain. This it seems depended solely upon th e fi at of the Postmaster-General, or of his secretary. 4 0 a petition from Great Yarmouth it was stated that they 144 only had letters sent round in all directions, but that the Postmaster -General had positively refused to redress the gri evance. He had told them, " I will tax you 9d. i nstead of 4d.," thus making himself equal to King, Lords, and Commons. And why ? For no other reason than that he was P ostmaster -General, and willed it to be so. It was with firm, "sic v o l o , s i c j u b eo " — " l am Postmaster-Gene . and I have a right to do it."—(Hear, hear.) He would recommend the great Yarmouth petition most strongly to the attention of his Majesty's Government. He begged !,0 say th a t, i n t h e observations he felt it his duty to make, tie had no intention whatever to reflect upon any person. It was the system which he complained of, and wished to Se reformed. He would avail himself of this opportunity of saying, that of Lord Lichfield, the present Post master-General, he had seen nothing but what was ex ceedingly creditable to the Noble Lord. He entirely denied that that Noble Lord had an accurate know ledge of his office. The Noble Lord knew, no doubt, as much as any of his predecessors ; but in the short space of tim e he had held his appointment, it was impossible he could have acquired the necessary information. He (Mr. Wal lace) was most ready, however, to admit that the Noble Lord was an active, zealous, and intelligent blic officer, anxious t o per f orm his duties, and if he did pu not do so to the extent which he (Mr. Wallace) conceived he ought to do, the fault did not rest with him. He would now call the attention of the House to another part of the system. When he on a former occasion expressed a wish that let ters should be delivered on a Sunday, he was accused of a leish to desecrate the Sabbath. Now what was the fact ? Clerks were employed at the Post-office every Sunday to sort out the letters : but the mail-coaches were allowed to g 0 out of town empty. What he contended for was, that the letters so sorted and ready should be put into the mails, and not be allowed to remain in the Post-office for forty eight hours. The mail coaches were not only prevented taking l etters, b ut a l so newspapers ; the consequence was, tll at expresses were employed to carry the papers to Bar and other places about ten or fifteen miles out of and th en put i nto t h e ma il- coac h es. L etters, as i t xas w ell known,• e also often forwarded in this way. Who would advocate the were such a system as this ? But would House believe that ie Post-office positively employed another description of p ersons to do the duty at Barnet, Hounslo, and other towns, on Sunday, which this system _rteoctessarily created. S o that instead of lessening the la ir on Sunday they increased it ; besides putting the edi v(vr of papers to a great expense for running expresses they must and would do. . Foreign mails it should also be borne in mind, were allowed to go on a Sunday. toThe editor s of paper s had frequently applied to be allowed put p into the mails, instead of being forced to hire ex presse s to carry them to the adjacent towns, but permis sion bid • 1 alw ays been refused to them. There was another circumstance connected with this subject, to which he l i e x quested th e particular attention of the Chancellor of the , ', l : , equer, b ecause it not only referred to a matter of great tPubltc c onvenien ce but one whicla in some degre e was con iected with hi s own office. He alluded to the system of their lett ers , so t h at they s h ou ld b e secured going to That s r place of d est i nat i on w h en t h ey conta i ne d money. Lees ' and worked well for three years—( Hear, hear, from T eve ral Irish Members)—not costing the Post-office l m ore than 1001. a year. It was put an end to by the the English pof .Richmond when he consolidated the Irish with 2130,000 r galish establishment. The effect was that year in bank-notes used to pass safely to thleir destination, which did not now pass safely rough the Post -office. Temptations were afforded to per. tconnected with the Post-office to break open the seals, ract the contents, and destroy the letters. Immense has c'ney wa s t h us lost, and the plunder never discovered. It in fact an encouragement to Post-office thieving. The S tl ste m of negotiation ought to be establiseed throughout the t hree kin g d oms. There was no reason why it should not,except that it wou l d occasion a little additional trouble. With regard to the number of hours the Post-office in London was kept ° Pen, the time was curtailed most extraordinarily. No let ter oclo er could d be put i n t o the General P ffi ost-oce after sevent in th e evening, nor before eight in the morning. Even theee vy receiving -boxes were shut. A person might o to General Post-offic e , an d fi n d many l a di es and gentle g men, tr adesmen and working-men, coming with their letters after the prescribed hour of seven, when, too late for that night's mail, they had not the consolation of even being allowed to th e their letters into the box, but must repeat their visit in morn ing. What reason could there be for this ? No !letn ason, b u t a vulgar prejudice at the Post-office, which made think that a genera l post letter was a better thing dill l aari a twop enny post letter ; whereas common sense saw no T er ence betwe en th em. They were both letters, and nothing ore- Put the Twopenny post was open at all hours of the d ay and night (Sundays included), as they ought to be. If those letters were sa f e, so would General-post letters be safe too. If the mails were sent at all hours of the day, it -irould be a great convenience to the public. This could, Ives sure, be done, while at the.same time the rate of Postage ought to be reduced. It would be proper not to charge more than 3d. upon any letter sent a distance of 50 miles ; for 100 miles 4d. ; 200 miles 6d. ; and the highest rate of p ostage ought not to be more than Bd. or 9d. at most. He c ou ld not un d erstan d why letters ought not to be sent by th e stage as we ll as the mail-coaches ; for, ac cording t o a return he had, it appeared that no stage-coach travelled as slow as the mails.—( Hear, hear.) He had to call the attention of the House to the packet-service. Ac cording t o the recommendation of the Commissioners, two Bills were to be brought, one to enable Government to transfer packets to the Admiralty ; that expectation, he believed, would not be found to be correct, for this reason, th at it w as k nown that a second Bill was not necessary, e Treasu r y h av i ng suff i c i ent prov i s i ons to act upon the su g g estions of the Commissioners. The report of the Com missioners proved th a t th ere had been a loss, not as he h a d s tated upon a former occasion, of 800,0001., but not less than from 1,200,000/. to 1,300,000/. For such a loss as this !,:!!'elY some one ought to be responsible.—( Hear, hear.) i 'nere had been, instead of a profit, a large annual loss oath at Holyhead and Liverpool. At Holyhead station t here had been a degree of fraud, carlessness, and plunder he had was disgraceful to any country. In a petition which ,ad seen that day, but which was not vet presented, it as alleged that an agent in Liverpool had, in the name of t t ne Po st - o ffi ce, run in debt 6,000/. more than he had assets 1:3 Pmore aY.—(Hear.) H e did not think that anyt hi ng cou ld e objectionable than the system of intimidation that Prevailed at the Post -office. It had prevailed to such an extent that th e captains of packets, and those who supplied the st ores, were a f ra id to make any complaint. Now, with re gard to responsibility he had to remark that the Under Secret ary for the Post -office d en i e d t h at h e was respon -B,s es I , t le, while the very acts of that Secretary went to show tsltionerrpon a sibility. Mr. Freeling's letter t o th e Commis _er s of Enquiry w as re f uted in the most complete man _aYs b_y Capt a i n E vans and Mr. Gardiner. Mr. Freeling is not responsible, because lie did not visit the Packet stations ; but the Commissioners proved that he had visited these stations several times, Holyhead especially upon seven different occasions, and a charge of 6791. was made for travelling expenses. Did not this show that that gentleman was the responsible person ? He also complained of the system of mulcting the inferior and hardworking officers ; that was a system which could not be counte nanced. In the packet department there had been, from first to last, a general system of jobbing. Although 1,000,0001., or 800,0001., or 900,000/. was expended on the twenty-four packets employed by the Post-office, if they were sold to-morrow, they would not bring more than 150,000/. The Honourable Member exhi bited a plan of the town of Cheltenham, for the in spection of Members, for which they, he believed, would see there was no pretext for continuing the impost of the penny-post upon the good people of that place, which he was happy to say had long been disconti nued in Brighton and in Ipswich: From the statement he had made to-night, he trusted he had shown the absolute necessity that existed for the attention of the House being drawn to the present defective mode of administering the affairs of this great establishment through the Postmaster- General. He knew it was proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman to make one of the responsible officers of that establishment capable of holding a seat in that House ; to such a proposition he, however, must say he should feel re pugnance. The complaints against the present system were loud from all parts of the United Kingdom. There was now a thorough conviction in the minds of most men that there ought to be an end of a government of this great establishment, by persons capable of sacrificing the interests of the public, and its servants in the office, to whim or to partiality ; and that it ought to be conducted by men of practical knowledge and business habits.— (Hear, hear.) To the Bill of the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on this subject, he must say he would give his full and complete support, coming as it did recommended by the material improvements it proposed to introduce into the administration, as well as recommended by the knowledge he had of the patriotic motives and the anxiety for the public interest which were so conspicuous in the Right Hon. Mover of that measure. The news also which had hut this day arrived from France, on the subject of the adjustment which had been happily come to between the French and English Governments as to the future in tercourse by the post between the two countries, encou raged him to believe that facilities were now afforded for effecting important improvements in respect to our Conti nental communications. We were, it appeared, in future to receive our letters without the restriction as to weight and thickness, and the letters were to be sent over at a stated price each, whatever the weight, provided they did not exceed a certain fixed weight as in this country.—(Load cheers.) It was worthy of the people of the two greatest nations on the earth, and closely united by mutual interest and friendly relations, to adopt such a course of just and prudent policy in their reciprocal intercourse, whether friendly or commercial. He would conclude by moving the resolutions of which he had formally given notice, though he believed from the communication he had had with the Right Hon. Gentleman, it would be unnecessary he should take the sense of the House upon them. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, speak ing across the table in a lo iv tone, which prevented us from hearing him distinctly, suggested, as we understood, to the Hon. Member to withdraw his resolutions, on the ground that they would prove a serious obstruction to the measures in contemplation for the removal of many of the evils of which he complained. Mr. WALLACE said be should be sorry to persist in any course that would have the effect of obstructing measures so valuable as those to which the Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded. Therefore he at once consented to withdraw his resolutions. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thanked the Hon. Gentleman for the course he had taken, and in formed him that his resolutions would have been a great im pediment in the way of the proposed Bills. The House would not expect him, at this late hour of the night, to fol low the Hon. Gentleman through the whole of the details of his speech ; at the same time he hoped the Hon. Gentle man would not attribute his not referring to those details to any want of respect for himself, and still less to any indif ference towards the important questions brought under the consideration of the House. He entirely agreed with the Hon. Gentleman as to the first proposition laid down by him. He admitted that the present constitution of the Post-office of the country was indefensible. It appeared to him that a great office of administration like this, or a great revenue department was not properly constituted in being placed in the hands of one officer, who retired from the office when ever a political change in the Government. took place.. Such an arrangement must have a tendency more or less to throw the administration of the establishment into the hands of subordinate persons. Within a short period'of time not less than five noblemen had held the office of Post master-general. The result of a system of that description must be an administration of a nature that ought not to ex ist in a great revenue department. He was gratified in hearing the Hon. Gentleman render justice to the great merits of the Noble Lord who at present held the office of Postmaster-general (Lord Lichfield.) But lie would go back to the administration of the Duke of Richmond, and rest his disapproval of the present administration of the Post-office on the result of the exertions of that Noble Duke. He was convinced that in the perfect know ledge he displayed of the principles on which the Post-office department ought to he administered, in the indefatigable industry he exhibited, in the pains he took to do all himself that he could do, in - the general ability that lie showed, he had never been equalled ; yet it was impossible to say that even the administration of the Duke of Rich mond was a species of administration that they would wish to continue of a great revenue department. It was evi dent, however, that if any one could have succeeded in it, the Duke of Richmond could. These were the general views he entertained of the subject, and he thought they were sufficiently forcible to induce the House to read the Bill which he had submitted to them a second time. All concurred in this, that the period had arrived when they must not. only contemplate an alteration, but endeavour to effect a real improvement. Such was the object of the Bill he now proposed. There were matters of detail of course to be embraced in the after discussions of the Bill, but they were matters rather for a Committee tha❑ for the House, while the Bill was in its present stage. He asked them now to read the Bill a second time—to approve the gene ral principle—that a mere political officer, acting at the head of this department, was as inapplicable to it as such an officer would be to the Customs, the Excise, or the Stamp department.—( Hear, hear.) As to the patronage he would not make the °dicers entirely independent of the Treasury. The Right Hon. Gentleman defended to a certain extent the packet system as at present established. He would say, however, that the department of St. Martin's-le-Grand ought not to have been entrusted with the management of the steam packets : the Admiralty was the proper power for governing them. He did not mean to recommend that the Admiralty should determine at what hour the packets should sail ; that was an arrangement which should remain with the Post-office ; but all relating to the administration of the general affairs of the packets would be more safely left to the Admiralty than to the Post•office. The Hon. Gentle man had alluded to the French convention. He thought it a subject for much satisfaction that that convention had been agreed to, for it put an end to a very rude and inconvenient system.—(Hear.) He believed that the two countries, in making this arrangement, which had been done with perfect cordiality on both sides, and in a very liberal feeling on the part of the French Government, which was certainly reci procated by ours, had commenced a good system of commu nication, which would not be bounded merely by the limits of France, but would extend itself over the whole continent of Europe.—(Hear.) Belgium, Holland, and no doubt the other powers, would in time show themselves willing to adopt the same principle. But an observation had been made on the irregularity with which this treaty had been carried into effect. He did not mean to make any com plaint in the slightest degree with reference to the manner in which the convention had been acted on by the French Government ; but for that irregularity, such as it was, this country was in no way accountable. It was referable en tirely to the French authorities, who had their own agent here to make arrangements to carry the treaty into effect. An ordonnance, it appeared, was issued before the arrange ments were complete for the convention to be carried into effect. The French authorities were aware that it was necessary to come to Parliament on the subjeet—that Par liament should sanction one of the Bills they knew was necessary ; but they issued the ordonnance it appeared while their own negotiator, their own agent, was on his return to Paris, and did not know of the issue of the ordonnance till he arrived at Paris. In the course of this day, however, the direction bad been given to which the Hon. Gentleman had adverted, and be trusted that no further inconvenience would be experienced. He hoped the House would pass this Bill, and he had no doubt that those points which had been thrown out would not escape the attention of the House. Mr: HUME inquired of the Chancellor of the Exche quer what he thought of the propriety of transmitting prices current free of postage ? Tile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he felt the importance of the suggestion, but he feared that great inconvenience would arise from sanctioning the free postage of every publication that assumed to be a price current. Mr. M. PHILIPS suggested the pro?riety of sending on without delay to Liverpool and Manchester letters de livered early in the morning. He beggel to say also that it would be a great con ven i ence to t h e m3rcant il e i nterests, if foreign prices current were allowed to be transmitted free of postage. Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was under consideration to abate the inconvenience usually felt from the detention of foreign letters in London during the whole day ; it was not, however, without difficulty that such an arrangement could be made. When the Bill came into Committee, he would explain why it was that the Commissioners were strongly of opinion that a person at the head of the Post office department should have a seat in the House. He anticipated considerable public advantage from the transfer of steam-packets from .the Post-office to the Admiralty. He was of opinion that much benefit would result to the public, when the steam-packets were provided for out of the navy estimates, from the strict scrutiny to which those annual votes were subjected in this House. Mr. GOULBURN said, that as the Right Hon. Gen tleman who had last. spoke had stated that on the present occasion he should not enter upon the reasons why he sup ported this Bill, but should defer them until it went into Committee, he should also be content to let the subject pass at present, after merely entering his protest against what he must consider the very unconstitutional principle involved in the Bill. After a few words from Colonel ANSON and another HON. MEMBER, Colonel SIBTHORP spoke against the Bill, and de= Glared his intention of dividing the House upon every future stage of its progress. Lord LO WTHER approved of the Bill. He believed there were in existence a vast variety of abuses in the ma nagement of the Post-office Department, which, when the proposed Commission was appointed, would be speedily got rid of. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS BILL. This Bill went through Committee. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL. In answer to a question from Capt. GORDON, Mr. P. M. STEWART said that it was not his inten tion to press this Bill during the present session. Mr. LYNCH obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable tenants for life of estates in Ireland to make improvements and charge inheritance with the monies expended on such improvements. The House adjourned at two o'clock. ROUSE OF LORDS, JULY 21. The Lord CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. A Message from the Commons brought up the Hunger ford and Lambeth Suspension Bridge Bill and the Swansea Harbour Bill. TRBMOUTHA .RAILWAY HARBOUR. •: The - Marquis of. LUarRNDERRY laid on the table the Report of the C. , LIRIMEe on the Tremoutha Railway Harbour Bill. The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from Northumberland against the appropriation of the revenues of the See of Durham ; also a petition from the Provincial Synod of Aberdeen, expressing their strong objection to the Scotch Universities Bill ; and a petition praying that the interests of the Church of England might be preserved in any measure introduced for the regulation of marriages from the Archdeaconry of Exeter. Viscount MELBOURNE presented petitions from con gregations of Protestant Dissenters praying for the redress of grievances. SEE OF DURHAM. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented peti tions from Hartlepool, Stockton-upon-Tees, South Shields, and about twenty other places in the county of Durham, against any appropriation of the revenues of the See of Durham. The Noble Marquis then presented a petition from the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, to which he begged to call the serious attention of the House. The petitioners who comprized all the working Clergy of the Diocese, prayed that any surplus revenues which might arise from the new arrangement relative to that See, would be appropriated to local purposes. He regretted that the Noble Duke (Cleveland) was not in his plaee, that he might hear what his opinions upon that subject were. So far as the first report of the Church Commissioners went, he did not find that it went to the extent of abstracting the whole revenues of a dio cese from local purposes, although it certainly did recom mend the appointment of two new Bishops. In the second report the amount to be abstracted from each Bishopric was stated, but in these cases the Commissioners had appropriated the surplus to local purposes. He com plained, however, that in the case of Durham, the entire surplus amounting to a sum of 41,0001. was to be taken away from that county.--(Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis then entered into some statistical details relative to the diocese of Durham, for the purpose of showing that the spiritual wants of the people were un attended to, and that they also required a sum to be set apart for their education, there being upwards of 23,000 children now without the means of education, a great portion of whom had been educated at the expense of the late Bishop. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving for the • appointment of a Select Committee, to whom should be referred the petition from the cc my of Durham, and the statements of the clergy of that diocese, and to report whether it would not be expedient to make further inquiries previous to appropriating any portion of its revenues, and to delay any legislative measure on the subject till next Session. After a few words from the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Viscount MELBOURNE should not have risen had it not been in conseque ace of a remark made by the Noble Marquis. The Nobie Marquis alluded to a transaction which it was had taken place between him (Viscount Melbourne) and a Noble Duke. He could only say that nothing of the sort had ever taken place. The ef fect of the Noble Marquis's motion would be for the House to reconsider a matter which had already been fully con sidered by Commissioners, who had come to a grave and deliberate opinion. In short, if the measure were now to be reconsidered on the grounds stated by the Noble Mar quis, it would go to the truth of the whole of the general reformation proposed by the Commissioners, and it would consequently be impossible to carry these measures into ef fect. The late Bishop of Durham had been allowed to be of a particularly charitable disposition, and could it be ex pected that his successors would be equally charitable ? Upon the whole, he thought it would be more reasonable and more just to place things on a better foundation, and not to let these revenues be dependent upon the acciden tal disposition of any Prelate who might fill the See. The question would shortly come before the House, and then there would be further opportunity of examining it, if necessary. In the meantime, he would say, that he hoped the House would not agree to the motion of the Noble Marquis. '1 he Bishop of GLOUCESTER said that the Noble Marquis had made statements respecting the Church Com mission which he should be exceedingly sorry to see go forth uncontradicted to the public. The Noble Marquis had accused the Church Commission of injustice to the county of Durham. How many months had elapsed since the accusation was first made ? The interval that had elapsed would be of itself a good answer to the accusation. The Commissioners were desirous of augmenting small livings generally, whilst the Noble Marquis was only desirous of augmenting the small livings of the see of Durham. He should, therefore, vote against the motion of the Noble Marquis. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY—After what had passed he should not press his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. The Earl of MEATH presented several petitions against the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill. The Marquis of HE..kDFOßTpresented a petition against the same Bill. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a peti tion from three individuals, the Dean, the Vice Dean, and one of the Prebendaries of the chapter of Norwich, against certain recommendations of the Ecclesiastical Commission. The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from the provost and council of Aberdeen, in favour of the Scotch Universities Bill. The same Noble Earl also pre sented a petition from another place in Scotland against the same Bill. On the motion of Viscount DUNCANNON, the Ex cise Licenses (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee, and was reported to the House. PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENT BILL. On bringing up the Report on this Bill, The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, upon the first clause of this Bill would beg leave to propose, as an amend ment, that the word " hereditarnents" be left out, and the word " lands" inserted in its place. The Duke of RICHMOND said the Bill could not effect the clergy in the least, and if the amendment was agreed to it would endanger the whole Bill. This amend ment had been founded upon the decision in the case of Rex v. Joggrett, which he maintained was not law, and which had been completely overturned by the subsequent case of Addams, and by the whole practice of the country. He should oppose the amendment ; but would suggest a proviso to the effect, that nothing in this Act should affect titheowners. Lord WYNFORD approved of the amendment. The Marquis of SALISBURY suggested that it might be better to leave out the clause altogether. The Earl of RADNOR thought that the House should maintain the decision at which they arrived the other night, in favour of retaining the clause. As to the amendment of the Rev. Prelate, he thought it would be a very difficult matter for the overseers to comprehend it. The Earl of CHICHESTER expressed his concurrence in the principle of the Bill, and his opposition to the amend ment of the Rev. Prelate. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said, the object of his amendment was merely to keep the titheowners just as they were at present. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the object of the Right Rev. Prelate's amendment, without involving the clause in much obscurity, and he might say illegality, might be attained by means of such a i)rovifio as was sug gested by the Noble Duke, that the Bill'. should not in any way affect the Clergy. After a few observations from Lord HIATHERTO N, The Archbishop of CANTERBURY would be quite satisfied with such a proviso, and would,. therefore, beg to withdraw his amendment. The Duke of RICHMOND then proposed a proviso, to the effect "that nothing herein contain ed be construed to affect or alter the principles or proportions upon which the different lands or hereditaments of titlaeowners are now rated." The Archbishop of CANTERBURY proposed another amendment, which also, afer a few obEiervations from the Duke of RICHMOND, was withdrawn. . The Duke of RICHMOND then proposed a further proviso, the object of which we were unable to ascertain. The Duke of WELLINGTON believed it would be convenient to have the Bill re-printed, together with the amendments which were proposed, in order that oppor tunity might be afforded for their being more fully under stood. The Earl of RADNOR could see no necessity for the suggestion of the Noble Duke. The Earl of HARROWBY should, if their Lordships concurred with him in his view of the am tter, move that the Bill be read a third time this day three months. The Duke of RICHMOND said that the Bill had undergone the most ample discussion, a nd, as it was a mea sure that was most necessary, he truss :ed that their Lord ships would allow it to pass. The Earl of HARAOWBY had suggested the post ponement merely because he thought tli e provisions of the Bill required more consideration than had been given to them ; but he must, at the same time, c ►bserve that he had no wish to get rid of the measure alttbge ther. After sonic further conversation th.e proviso was agreed to, and, other amendments having been made in the Bill, it was ordered to be reprinted and read a third time on Mon day week. REGISTRATION OF MARMAGES BILL. On the motion that the House do I r solve itself into com mittee on the Registration of Marriages Bill, Lord ELLENBOROUGH suggested that the better way would be to go into committee pro forma on this Bill, in order that it might be printed with certain amendments which he had to propose. Viscount MELBOURNE was crait e ready to adopt the suggestion of the Noble Lord. Lord WYNFORD bad very strong objectiorl to the measure ; but although he would offer no objection . to the course proposed to be taken, it was by no means to be un derstood by their Lordships that hel in any way accorded his sanction to this Bill. The Bishop of EXETER had strung objections to both the Bilis relating to the registration ofmarriages, births, and deaths ; and certainly hearing that; the principle of this measure was to remain unchanged was no inducement to him to waive his objections to it. Het lad heard much about the principle of the Bill ; but for his part he should like to know what its principle was ? He was williing to admit that they should attend to the scruples of conscience of those who objected to the office of - marriage as laid down in the Book of Common Prayer ; but still he would be no party to any measure which went to interfere with the rites and ceremony of the Established Church. Now, this Bill in his opinion, went the length of iniw•iting the members of the Church of England to contract marriage without any religious ceremony ; and that was a principle which he hoped the Legislature never would adopt. Their Lordships then went into Committee on the Bill pro forma, and the amendments proposed having been agreed to the House resumed, and t'ae. Bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. The Registration of Births and Deaths Bill also went through committee pro forma. The Duke of RICHMOND thought that the appoint ment of registers should not be left in the hands of the board of guardians, because they would be likely to appoint the relieving officer to the office. Re was also desirous of having some alteration made in the clause relating to bu rials, as it would, if it remained as it was, lead to great in convenience. After some further conversation, the Bill, with the amend ments, was ordered to be re-printed. The Earl of S HAFTESBURY brought up the report of the Committee on the Church Discipline Bill. The Cessio Bonorum (Scotland) Bill was read a third time, and passed, with some verbal amendments, moved by the Lord Chancellor. The Bankrupts' Estate (Scotland) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed pro forum to-morrow, For the introduction of some amendments, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor.—Adjourned. POST OFFICE. A notification was issued yesterday from the Post Office' from which it appears that all the provisions of the treaty though it has not undergone ratification in the form pre scribed, will be brought into operation at once, so far as the communications with France are concerned. Thus the public will have the option of sending letters to France, either unpaid or paid for the whole distance, or of adhering to the old plan, in paying the postage to the French fron tier. To countries the road to which lies through France, so perfect an arrangement cannot, it seems, yet be adopted, but there is still some improvement in this respect on the former method. Letters for Switzerland and Sardinia, for example, may be paid to the place of destination, and those for Southern Italy may be paid in advance to the Italian frontier of Sardinia. Letters for Austria and Venetian Lombardy may also be paid in advance, but letters for all the places above named cannot be taken without payment. The reduction of the rate of postage, for which the new treaty has provided, is also to be brought into effect imme diately, and appears to be considerable. The English charge for French letters, instead of is. 2.d., is now 10d., and the Spanish letters, instead of 2s. 2d., will be Is. 7d. only ; other places in nearly the same proportion, as may be ascertained by a reference to the official notice. The rate between Dover and Calais is reduced from 6d. to 3]. for a single letter. The registration of letters at a charge of 2s. 6d., instead of 215., will be a great convenience to the merchants, and will produce more revenue to the Post office. The old charge was so absurdly high, that it was scarcely ever submitted to. Another part of the new ar rangement, which is considered of value here, is a sort of approach to the French system of charging the letters by weight, and which gives, in some respects, an advantage over it to the English merchants. No letter which does not weigh a quarter of an ounce will be charge more than single, whatever number of enclosures it may contain ; for half an ounce the charge will be double, and no letter which is under one ounce will be charged more than double. A letter on one sheet of paper, and under an ounce in weight, will only be charged single, but such letters on the other side, where the charge is wholly by weight, will have a heavy postage to pay. In regard to newspapers, the improved facilities are also worth notice. Those for France may be put in, us the letters are, without any payment, and the only charge to which they are subjected on the other side is four centimes, or about a halfpenny. We fear that the old regulation remains i.i force by which English papers published in France are ex cluded from all the advantages of the new arrangement, and must be sent as letters. The object of this is to pre vent the printing of newspapers by English publishers in France, and their circulation here without the payment of any stamp duty, than which a more puerile notion never. entered into the head of any Statesman. A traject even of six hours would make any newspaper valueless in the competition with the local publications. We hope that this blot in the treaty will be got rid of at the first conve nient opportunity. In addition to the route through Calais, arrangements are made for sending letters to Dieppe through Brighton, and Havre through Southampton.— Morning Paper. A letter received from Brighton, states that the mar riage of Colonel Leslie to Lady Mary Dorothea Eyre, daugh ter of the Countess of Newburgh, was solemnized at Slindon Hall last Tuesday. The new married couple were expected to leave for the bridegroom's seat in Scotland. REPRESENTATION OP NEWCASTLE.—The death of Sir M. W. Ridley has occasioned a vacancy in the repre sentation of Newcastle. There are three or four individuals mentioned as likely to become candidates. The friends of the late Sir Matthew Ridley have issued a hand-bill, calling on the electors " not to promise their votes, as they believe his son, the present Sir Matthew (now in London), will solicit their suffrages." The friends of John Hodgson, Esq., of Elswick House, have announced a meeting to consider the propriety of sending him a requisition to come forward. C. J. Bigge, Esq., the Mayor, has ,been talked of a s lik e ly to offer himself in the event of Sir Matthew Ridley declining ; and C. Atticus Monck, Esq., son of Sir Charles Monck, of Belsay Castle, has been also mentioned. Mr. Aytoun, of Edinburgh, who was a candidate at the last election, has been spoken of, as well as Colonel Napier, the able historian of the Peninsular War, but we do not think that either of them would at present have any prospect of success. The contest, if there be one, will probably be between two of the four gen tlemen first named—that is,. between Sir M. Ridley and Mr. Hodgson ; or between Mr. Bigge, or Mr. Monck and Mr. Hodgson.—Tyne Mercury. " DE VEREUX."—This fascinating novel, from the masterly pen of M r . B ulwer, i s now publishing in the weekly issue of " Colburn's Modern Novelists." It is to be com prised in six numbers, price one shilling each, with engravings. Of all our modern writers none has displayed more perfect knowledge of character and more deep management of the interest of his story, than the author of " Pelham," and, per haps, in these particulars, none of his works ranks so high as " Devereu::." The public certainly owe a debt of gratitude to the publisher, for enabling them to possess at so cheap a rate, and in so elegant a form, works preferring such high claims to literary excellence as his attractive series of Modern Novelists" presents. PARIS. JULY 20.—The feelings of the Court circle and of influ ential personages here offer, I can assure you, a very striking contrast with those betrayed and avowed on the arrival of the tidings of the brilliant reception met with by the French. Princes at Berlin. There all was pride and exultation. The English alliance was honoured indeed, but all the collaterals and consequences of that alliance were rather slighted and deferred. Spain was, I may say, ajourne, as the expression is here. Nct a man was sent thither, nor a franc raised, and I verily believe, that the whole Peninsula would gladly have been exchanged for the smile of an arch-duchess. There is no use now in any longer concealing this, since precisely the contrary spirit prevails. The Duke of Orleans, who perhaps went a waverer to Germany, has returned as liberal a partizan to the quadruple alliance, " of the whole alliance, and nothing but the alliance," as England, and Queens Isabella and Donna Maria could wish. Nor does he content himself, as formerly, with passive and tacit opinions, but the Prince exerts himself, and has exerted himself to some purpose, in stirring the lazy nature of the War-Mi nistry here, and in a way that will soon be felt on the Spanish frontier. King Louis Philippe showed himself, I understand, at first reluctant to part with or discredit his golden dreams. Nor would the voice of his son, perhaps, have been alone sufficient. But the Duke of Orleans has had a powerful coadjutor for his newly awakened liberalism in the King of the Belgians, who has, perhaps, a keener in sight into the politics of Europe than even the King of the French himself, and who certainly is less blinded and led astray by illusions of regal vanity and self-interest. Few have such influence upon Louis Philippe as his son in-law, King Leopold, and this influence, too, has made itself telt. From this state of things I venture to prophesy brighter prospects for the cause of the constitution in Spain. For all the good-will and frank co-operation of England are but weak auxiliaries in comparison of what France could do with equally little art and exertion to herself. For us to embark armies would be an effort and an expense which Don Carlos or his suppression were not worth ; but France could with ease put forth her eagle claws over the Pyrenees, and anni hilate the usurper. This, I think, she will do. One thing alone can prevent her doing so, and this would be the pre valence of a democratic party in Spain as the result of the new elections. Were Isturiz overthrown, the new zeal of the Cabinet of the Tuileries would very probably cool ; and should Mina be appointed to the command in Navarre, as lie well deserves, and as patriotic Spaniards desire, the French Government, instead of increasing its co-operation, would probably withdraw her foreign legion and aid altoge ther. The King of the French and his' Government are, I have not the least doubt, mistaken, in attributing to Mina and to others certain views of policy inconsistent with the interests of France and monarchical rules. But such ideas; are deeply rooted ; and Cordova, the traitor, is preferred at the Tuileries, to Mina, the revolutionist.—Correspondent of a Morning Paper. MEXICO. (From the Mexican Gazette.) DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND MARINE- CENTRAL SECTION. ARMY OF OPERATION.—MOST EXCELLENT SlR—The most Excellent Senor President, General-in-Chief of this army, advanced on the lath instant from Hold-fort, on the left bank of the Rio Brazos, to operate upon the enemy, taking with him 700 men chosen from the divisions, with one six-pounder, leaving on the right bank of the fiver, op posite to Hold-fort, the remainder of tile troops commanded by his Excellency in person. I arrived there on the 16th ; General Ramirez Sesma gave up the command to me, and I remained encamped, agreeably to the orders which his Excellency had left on marching. These troops were beaten on the 2l st in the neighbourhood of New Washington, a little in advance of Harrisburgh. In consequence, I collected the troops which were dis persed in various directions ; and having to incorpo rate my forces with those under the command of Generals Gaona and Urrea, having also to determine on a base of operations, because his Excellency had not laid down any, I came to place myself on the bank of the Rio Colorado, where I could receive the necessary supplies, and announce to your Excellency this]unfortunate event, as well as re-or ganize the troops, in order to renew our military operations. Will your Excellency be pleased to make this known to his Excellency the Interim President, manifesting, at the same time, the sentiments which animate me, as well as the wor thy soldiers who accompany me ? I repeat to your Excel lency my high consideration, &c. and liberty. Habitation of Madame Pauli, five leagues from the Rio Brazos, April 25, 1806. (Signed) "‘ VICENT E FILISOLA. " To his Excellency the Secretary of War, &c. " MOST EXCELLENT SIR—I have this day received from his Excellency the President, Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the official and private communications which I transmit herewith to your Excellency. According to my duty, and having already commenced my movements for the advantageous disposition of the forces generally, as indicated to your Excellency in my note of the 25th in stant ; for that reason, and also for those assigned by his Excellency General Santa Anna, I have replied to him as follows : [This despatch is also signed by General Filisola, and dated at the Arroyo of San Bernardo, the 28th April, 1836. 'We transpose the arrangement of the inelcsures, in order to introduce General Santa Anna's letters before General Filisola's answer, which he incorporates as a part of his dispatch to the Secretary of War, &c. in Mexico.] 1. General Santa Anna to General Filisola, dated at the Camp of San Jacinto, April 22, 1836 : " MOST EXCELLENT SlR.—The small division under my immediate command having yesterday afternoon sus tained an unfortunate encounter, the result is, that I am here a prisoner of war among the enemy. Having regard to every possible consideration in that respect, I give notice to your Excellency to order General Gaona to counter march towards Bejar, and there to wait till further orders, in the same manner as your Excellency is to do, with the troops under your command, and to give notice also to General Urrca to retire with his division to Guadalupe Victoria, because a temporary armistice has been agreed on with General Houstoun, during which some negotiations may be arranged for causing an entire cessation of the war. " For the maintenance of the army, which is henceforth to remain under the command of your Excellency, you can dispose of the supplies arrived at Matamoros, and the pro visions which ought to be in store at that place and at Victoria, as also the 200,000 dollars which ought to be in the military chest, and which were brought from Beiar. " I hope that your Excellency will without fail comply with these arrangements, and advise me in answer that you have actually commenced carrying them into effect.—God and liberty, &c. (Signed) " ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA." 2. Private letter from General Santa Anna to General Filisola, dated Paso de San Jacinto, 25th April (three days later than the foregoing. " MY ESTEEMED FRIEND AND COMRADE—As I am not to remain for any time here, and you are to retire into the interior, I entreat you to send me my personal baggage, and that of our comrade Almonte, that of Castrillon, that of our comrade Nunez, and a case belonging to my secre tary Senor Caro, which was placed in the hall together with mine, taking care that a person in your confidence shall come with the muleteers, conductors, and guide who is to accompany them to this camp, and to send by him the inclosed safe conduct, in order that they may meet with no disaster on the way. You will order the other baggage of the Chiefs and Officers, to be carried back with the army, in order that the respective owners may in due time receive their own. " I recommend to you, above all things, to comply with my official orders in regard to the retiring of the troops, because you will thereby contribute to the safety of the pri soners, and in particular to that of your affectionate friend and comrade, &c. &c. (Signed) " ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA." 3. General Filisola's answer to Santa Anna, dated 28th April, and incorporated in his public dispatch, as already mentioned : ----; k0; EXCELLENT SIR—As soon as I received intelli gence from some officers and dispersed troops, of the un fortunate encounter which your Excellency communicates in your note of the 22d instant, I directed such movements as I deemed convenient for the concentration of the army. and having carried them into effect, I marched towards this flank, in order, when disembarrassed of some useless and cumbrous stores, to commence anew the movement upon the enemy ; but paying more attention to that communica tion from your Excellency, to the circumstances stated therein, and de s s ir i wellg to as g a proof of my cons id erat i on f or your for tlose pris oners w h om you person, n men tion, I shall now repass the Colorado, and shall discontinue hostilities, so long as the enemy shall give no cause for re suming them. The Generals Gaona, Urrea, and Ramirez Sesma, with their divisions, are re-united with me, as above indicated. Your Excellency knows well the disposable forces with which could operate, reinforced by these divisions, and conse quently you know that I cease from hostilities, at the peril of my own responsibility to the Supreme Govern ment, solely, I repeat, from the consideration due to your Excellency's person, and to the peace of the Republic ; but in return, I desire to know as well that your person and tho se o f ot h er pr i soners shall be entirely respected, as those are of several of the enemy who are in my power. Discontinuing hostilities, as I say to your Ex cellency, property also shall be respected ; only the smallest quantity necessary for the army shall be taken, and if the owners shall appear, they shall be pa d religiously, as they would have been all along if, y had not abandoned and destroyed the greater part of their habitations. That some small wooden houses have been burnt, has excited my indignation, and that of the General who are under my command. That act, committed by some of those vagabonds who are to be fouorl in all armies, called our attention to such a degree that ; in con sequence, we had imposed the pain of death on any who who should be guilty of a repetition of it, and that oven before the receipt of your Excellency's communication. " As your Excellency informs me that an armistice has been agreed to with General Houstoun, and you do not apprize me of the bases thereof, General l)on Adrian Woll goes herewith, in order to learn the particulars, so that the conditions may be.complied with on our part ; and also that he require their fulfilment on the part of the enemy. The said General shall remain to obey all that your Excellency requires in your said note, and I have the greatest satisfaction in reiterating my respect and considera tion," &c. The dispatch then concludes by requesting the Secretary of War and Marine to lay the whole before his Excellency the interim President of the Republic, for his superior con sideration and consequent orders to the army. CONVEYANCE OF NEWSPAPERS. The Bill to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to the Conveyance of Newspapers by the Post, enacts 1. That all newspapers sent by the general post within the United Kingdom shall go free. 2. That all newspapers sent. through the general post, and delivered by the penny or twopenny post, and vice versa, go free. 3. That newspapers sent by twopenny post only pay ld., and may he sent within post towns at the like rate. 4. That newspapers sent from the United Kingdom by packets to the Colonies, shall go free ; as also newspapers sent by packets from the Colonies to the United Kingdom, 5. That newspapers may be sent from one Colony to an other Colony, via United Kingdom, by packet-boat, free of postage. 6. That newspapers sent from the United Kingdom to the Colonies by private ships shall pay Id. 7. That newspapers brought into the United Kingdom from the Colonies by private ships shall pay Id. 8. That newspapers to or from foreign countries shall pay 2d.; but that if any foreign State reives or sends newspapers to or from the United Kingdom free of duty, then no duty shall be charged on newspapers to or from such Stat?,iF by packet-boat ; or if by other vessels,-then only hi. 9. That ld. be paid masters of private ships for each newspaper. 10 That newspapers be :eat without a cover, or in a cover open at the sides, without writing or marks. 11. That they be put into the post-office within se n days after date, if going out of the United Kingdom. 12. That the Postmaster-General shall be authorised to search and to charge treble postage, Sze. The sender to be liable to treble duty, on attempt to evade the (:uty of postage. By this Act it is not compulsory to send newsp through the post, and newspapers re-directed are to b.: for warded free of postage, if not opened. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. SPECIAL COUNTY COURT. Yesterday there was a numerous attendance of magis trates on the bench, that day havin g been specially ap pointed to take into consideration the Report of the Com mittee of Accounts and for General Purposes ; on that part of the Report of the Committee of Vestry of St. George's, Hanover-square, which relates to the county rate ; and also on the Report of the Visiting Justices of the Lunatic Asylum ; on that part of the Third Report of the Committee of Vestry of St. George's, Hanover-square, which relates. to the Lunatic Asylum. Shortly after 12 o'clock, Sir JOHN GIBBONS, Bait., was called to the Chair. Sir J. WILLIAMS moved and Mr. DEVON seconded the motion, that " the Report of the Committee for Accounts and for General Purposes upon the First Report of the Committee of Vestry of St. George's, Hanover-square, on the expenditure of the county of Middlesex, referred to them to examine and report upon, by order of the Court at the last Session," should be agreed to. _ _ The Report was then read, and, after a short discussion, agreed to. It was then moved and seconded, that the Report from the Committee for Accounts and for General Purposes on " The Third Report of the Committee of Vestry of the pa rish of St. George's, Hanover-square, on the expenditure of the county of Middlesex, referred to the Committee by the Court on the 26th of May last," be now brought up, read, and agreed to. Mr. ALLEN read the Report of the Committee, explain ing and negativing the various allegations against the Ma gstrates, when Mr. WILES, M.P., moved the rejection of these words in the concluding passage of the Report, " but they ab stain from compromising the dignity and feelings of the Court ; not being disposed to dispute the claim to superior abilities of the three persons who drew up the St. George's Report." A protracted and desultory conversation took place upon this amendment between the Chairman, Colonel Clitherow, Mr. M'William, Mr. Tyler, Mr. Devon, and other Magis trates ; when it was finally and unanimously adopted ; this Report agreed to, and that copies of it should be forwarded to the HOlll3 Office, and the Church ,vardens and Overseers of any parish in the country.—Adjourned. SALES OF ESTATES. By Mr. GEORGE RomNs, at the Mart.—The impor ;ant Freehold Property of Abraham Hoskins, Esq., near ;0 Lord Chesterfield's and Sir Francis Burdett's estates ; it comprehends—first, the Newton Park estate in Derby shire, the abode of the proprietor, with extensive gardens and splendid hot and succession-houses, extending 150 feet ; the whole estate (with a trifling exception) is free from tithe ; also Bladon Castle, with towers and pleasure grounds, and a cottage in the village of Newton, garden, and all re quisite offices ; also close by a Villa Residence, suited to a sporting man, environed by garden grounds and orchards ; and, contiguous, a smaller Residence, with some neat Cot tages ; the domain comprises altogether 490 acres of capital land, and the whole within a ring fence, rented and esti mated value 2,0041. ; timber, crops, Sze., to be taken at a valuation-53,100 guineas. The Freehold Hatch Court Estate, of J. L. Lee, Esq., M.P., Somerset, comprising the mansion, with offices of every description, extensive gardens, hot and succession houses, measuring 100 feet ; also Hatch Inn and produc tive Land, in all about 311 acres-17,600 guineas. Ne-R3che Farm, of 106 acres, let at 1501.-4,350 gs. A Freehold Estate, free from tithe and land tax, at Undley, Essex, domprising the Hall Farm, of 916 acres, let at 800/. a year ; also the Manor of Undley-21,700 gs. The Freehold Kirby-le-Soken Estate, of 420 acres, let at 430/. a year, land-tax 15/. Bs.; also the Manor of Birch Hall, sold to Mr. Floaker for 10,900 guineas. CHANCERY COURT-THURSDAY. SQUIRE V. CAMPBELL. Mr. BETIIELL, 01 - 1 - the same side with Sir C. Wethe rell and Mr. Jacob, was heard this morning in support of the motion to dissolve the injunction. The Learned Coun sel commenced by observing that the case was so c l ear on the part of his clients that, but for the respect due to a de liberate decision of the Vice. Chancellor, he might almost be excused from treating the question raised on the subject of contract as one worthy of argument. Contract there was none, save that the plaintiffs were to have a plot of ground in a street which was to form a continuation of Pall-mall, and so far from the erection of the statue being, a violation of that contract, there was nothing shown on the part of the plaintiffs which would preclude the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, through whom the defendants derived their title, from erecting a row of houses in the space now open, and thereby continuing Pall-mall East to the corner of the Haymarket. Mr. WIGRAM, on the part of the plaintiffs, maintained that the plan laid before Parliament, and lodged with the Speaker of the House of Commons, was a part of the contract with Mr. Kinnaird at the time they agreed to take a lease of the ground, and that it was on the faith of that plan, and under the assurance that the ground in front was to be an open space, and free from erection of any kind, that they consented to pay so high a price as four guineas a foot for the ground, and to expend 20,000/. in building. Sir C. WETHERELL replied, and The LORD CHANCELLOR directed a copy of the Act of Parliament for making the new streets, and a copy of the plaintiffs' lease to be handed up to him, as he wished to inspect them with more attention before he pronounced his opinion. CITATEAUBRIAND'S SKETCHES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE."—There has not appeared, for a long time, any work so calculated to pique the curiosity of the literary world, as this new production of the celebrated Ch a t eau b r i In d, i n which he discusses the merits of 3 hakspeare, Milton, Byron, and the whole galaxy of ancient, as well as modern English writers, drawing the most curious comparisons and analogies. One, not the least interesting, is between the men and events of the English and of the French Revolutions. Since our last, the weather has been - very cold and stormy, with heavy gales from the N. and N. W. The hay harvest has been much impeded, and it is feared that the rain will be very prejudicial to the wheat at this critical period. This does not appear to be the case in the south of Englai where, we observe, the markets are generally falling.— 11 7 haven Herald THE StI.N, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 2 1836.